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"As markets revive, fear of inflation will drive up interest rates, which will choke off recovery, " he said at a breakfast in New York.

Just as parasites do, cancer depends on its host for sustenance, which is why treatments that choke off tumors can be so effective.

Worried Beijing policymakers are trying to choke off the supply of funds fueling the property boom.

The industry's claim that the bill will choke off access to credit is a bit rich given its own rush to reduce its unsecured lending.

Countries that make an early break run the risk that higher rates and a stronger currency choke off the recovery.

Meanwhile, mushrooming mortgage losses at various federally controlled lenders could choke off some of the credit flowing to households.

The first chance to choke off the flow for good should come in about a week.

Interest rates trickle higher, but not enough to choke off the recovery.

But over the summer and fall, tightened local lending collided with the global financial crisis to choke off easy credit.

When did the enemy choke off our supplies?

It's no secret India would try to choke off China's oil imports in the event of a conflict.

But Fitzpatrick cautioned that "irrational exuberance, " coupled with soaring gas prices, could choke off demand and stifle recovery.

High tax rates choke off the economic growth needed to finance the promises.

This would choke off supplies of fresh credit to the economy and lead to a more severe downturn.

However, a full 20% increase will likely choke off the fragile Chinese economic recovery.

In practice, the extra inspections of shipping containers and the campaign to choke off terror finance made hardly any difference.

He predicted that rapid spending cuts would choke off the economic recovery that was under way when the chancellor took office in 2010.

Were the Fed to act prematurely against inflation, it could choke off an economic recovery.

But Beijing's latest policy move targets just those smaller-tier cities and could now choke off that growth.

In the current policies scenario, much higher prices . . . are needed to choke off demand to bring it into balance with supply.

Higher energy prices could choke off any global economic recovery.

If those banks fail, it could choke off credit for smaller companies.

They need to reduce their dependence on borrowed money, a painful and drawn-out process that can choke off credit and economic growth.

But premature fiscal tightening is worse because it is liable to choke off the recovery prematurely.

Another reason for caution is that firms on a cash crusade can all too easily choke off investment in promising new products.

Air quality problems choke off views, poison plants, and even foul water.

But the chamber argues that a new agency would choke off credit to small businesses, limit consumer choices and lead to higher prices.

GM's biggest worry is that tightened monetary conditions could choke off growth later in the year, according to Mr Wale.

In India, it is that failure to modernise the country's creaking infrastructure will choke off growth.

The risk is that tightening policy so soon after the crisis ends will choke off a recovery.

Treasury borrowing of existing savings would drive up the interest rate and choke off economic activity